First off, let me just be clear, here. Ferris, the mod necromancer, is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ champion. Their hosting & maitenance of this ambitious, complicated mod is nothing short of doing the Lord's work. If you are able, offer them a hug, do nice things for Ferris. Mod necromancers who remain true to mods like this deserve our love & respect. We should want nothing but good things for them, all the time, forever. ~<3

Which means... that the things that don't I don't like, & I don't think work very well, are nothing to do with our beloved mod necromancer. It's to do with the concepts & implementation of the mod itself. Moving on...

There are unannounced incursions in this mod. Like, zombies & bosses just pop onto the map, zoom in on your colony & attack without warning. There's nothing you can do about that except wall up. If you don't like that, there's no settings to turn it off.

Further, there is a fallout-like event, which is cool, it works... however, the problem is that the necronoid infection that it causes both cannot be cleared up with the Ideology Biosculptor pod, & the necronoid cure you can research (THAT COSTS 7000 RESEARCH POINTS) can/will cause a deadly overdose in children. That's right, the mod has a disease that can't be cured by except by hurdling a massive, specific research wall, & the cure will kill your children. And, no, there are no settings to fix any of this.

Boss monsters can also come with maximum armor values; the Wendigo, for example (which is not on the front page) has 200% sharp armor, & 99% pain resist. It also moves at a rate of 9.6 cells a second, faster than any pawn can move with archotech legs. You cannot, again, prepare against something like this which can arrive without warning... & it's not even the faster necronoid I've seen. The Howling Spider is more than 12 cells a second fast. It is, quite honestly, the fastest thing I've ever seen in this game in the years I've been playing it.

Those three things, the stealth events that don't add to the story unfolding except possibly end it without warning, & force a single play style of mindlessly turtling up. The poorly implemented (to me) necronoid infection mechanics, & the fact that monsters that are not uncommon (I've killed 5 unannounced Wendigos & 3 unannounced Howling Spiders without losses because I tanked up REAL FAST after the first Howling Spider) can be either have maximum armor or ludicrous speed really turns me off. So I have been forced to, not unsubscribe, but at least turn this very ambitious, interesting mod off for now. Which is a shame, because I also got a "Flesh Pit" event, & that was INCREDIBLY fun.

Swarms of zombies with assault rifles are genuinely thrilling to repulse, & the regular swarms & attacks are very-very-very fun, rewarding good base layout & preparation. Plus, allowing me regular access to, & thus the logistical issue of, human leather & human meat? Fantastic, yes, force me to deal with this vanilla resource that I so often completely ignore! Shame the other things I've seen the mod throw at me aren't like that, yet.

So... keep this mod on your radar, & be ware of its problems. All love to Ferris.